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“You’re lucky to be alive, asshole”
“You’re lucky to be alive, asshole” I wrote my first piece for The Toronto Standard last week. “No City for Middle-Aged Men” tells some funny (I hope) anecdotes about my experiences as a middle-aged guy who goes to lots of club shows full of lots of young people, while also trying to make a point […]
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Vengeance is Ford’s
Vengeance is Ford’s My old friend @cityslikr runs a great blog called All Fired Up in the Big Smoke, which is all about Toronto politics. He claims he will buy me two drinks for every guest post I write and you can read my latest offering here. It’s about Mayor Rob Ford and the triumph of […]
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Ryerson Review of Journalism wins six AEJMC awards
Ryerson Review of Journalism wins six AEJMC awards The Winter 2011 issue My fabulous students, who produced the Winter 2011 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism, just won several awards in the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Student Magazine Contest: Winter 2011 issue (editor: Liam Casey) — First Place, Single Issue of an Ongoing […]
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If Toronto’s Mayors Were Maple Leafs
If Toronto’s Mayors Were Maple Leafs Last September, during the municipal election, Shawn Micallef wrote a perspicacious open letter to George Smitherman in Eye Weekly (now known as The Grid). Micallef urged the Toronto mayoral candidate to be more like Wendel Clark and less like Tie Domi. Although I am not a Maple Leaf fan, I’ve watched the team […]
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Car Songs
Car Songs Spacing magazine, which launches its first national edition tonight, is holding a road trip mix CD contest. Make a CD for Matthew Blackett’s cross-Canada drive and get a free subscription. Gotta like that. To get you in the mood and give you some ideas, here’s the Car Song Appendix from my book Drive: […]
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CIHR Journalism Award
CIHR Journalism Award I managed to score a Canadian Institutes of Health Research journalism award to write about music and health. I will be doing stories for Maisonneuve and Reader’s Digest. And I hope this is the beginning of another great adventure (a book, in other words).
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Here We Are Now, Entertain Us
Here We Are Now, Entertain Us I am collaborating with psychologist and popular parenting expert Alex Russell on a book called Here We Are Now, Entertain Us: Parenting in the Age of Entitlement. Wiley Canada will publish the book in the spring of 2012.
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Berton House Writers Retreat
Berton House Writers Retreat I will be writer-in-residence at Berton House in Dawson City, Yukon from April through June, 2012. (Yes, the wait is killing me.)